Still, artist Jim Lee — who said he drew inspiration from Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss and Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic photo V-J Day in Times Square — said his cover was designed to create buzz about the new supercoupling.

“Hopefully this will raise a lot of eyebrows,” Lee told EW. “We welcome the watercooler chatter.”

Last fall, Justice League was the first out the door as part of DC’s “New 52″ initiative designed to lure new readers by resetting issue numbers at 1 and recalibrating the publisher’s superhero universe.